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LIGO Article Reading Assignment

LIGO Article Reading Assignment

Q Read: LIGO_Guide.pdf Actions LIGO Article On a single page, write and submit via canvas responses to these writing prompts: 1) What is a gravitational wave (in your own words)? 2) What was LIGO's discovery in 2015 (the event is named GW150914)?

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Rapidly fast and invisible ripples in space are known as gravitational waves. Universe's birth, accelerating masses like an explosion of stars and collision on black holes generates gravitational waves. As they pass through, they stretch and squeeze all the things which intervene in their path. They travel with light's speed such as they cover the distance of 186 thousand within a second. They transmit energy in the form of gravitational forces. Elbert Einstein first introduced the concept of gravitational waves. Gravitational forces give information about gravity's nature and its origins.